Word: spent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...intercollegiate geological excursion to Westfield, Mass., last Saturday proved successful. It was attended by forty-six teachers and students from twelve institutions, including Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Williams, and Wesleyan. The day was spent under the leadership of Professor Davis in studying the terraces of the Westfield Valley and the influences of rock ledges in their development. It is proposed to make another joint excursion next year under direction of Professor Emerson of Amherst, probably on the trap ridges near Amherst...
...took a position in a wholesale dry goods house. His work, however, proved uncongenial, and after a course of study under a private tutor he came to Harvard in the fall of 1852. He was elected orator for the Class Day exercises in 1856. After his graduation he spent a year in the Cambridge Law School, and continued his legal studies in a law office in Marshall, Michigan, where he was in due course admitted to the bar. He continued the practice of law until 1865 when he accepted a position as tutor in Latin at Harvard...
...loss of the Yale games is due in a large measure to those men, who, in failing to fulfil their College duties, failed also in their duty to their class. It would have been much better if such men had not come out at all, because the time spent in coaching them was a dead loss...
...Wiener the second largest collection of books in the Slovak language in the world. Slovak is a dialect of Bohemian spoken by nearly two million and a half of the inhabitants of Northern Hungary. During the nineteenth century it has developed a literature of its own. Mr. Wiener spent the summer in the Slovak country, and then succeeded in buying all the books of value in that literature...
...Gordon, who was sent in November by the Peabody Museum to explore the ruined cities of Central America, has just returned. He spent two months in Honduras and three months in Guatemala. The principal part of his work was the exploration of the ruins of Quirigua, Guatemala, the most important ruined city of the ancient Maya civilization. It is buried in a dense tropical jungle through which roads had to be cut to reach the site. The most remarkable of the relics are the stone monoliths covered with inscriptions and weighing from fifteen to sixty tons. During his investigations...